Lesson Plans 
 

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Lección 10 - Lecturas: 2-Semester System
(8 days. Each class = 50 minutes.)

Day 1

IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES
  1. Ask for volunteers to read aloud their paragraphs discussing the view of literature and art presented in either the quote or the painting on the Literatura section opener for Lección 10. Use the suggestions found in Additional Teaching Suggestions for Lecturas in the Instructor’s Resource Manual to direct/expand the discussion. Ask students how the quote and picture tie into the lesson theme, La literatura y el arte.
  2. Present the vocabulary list, modeling the Spanish words and expressions.
  3. Have students discuss the Conexión personal questions in Antes de leer in pairs. Encourage students to use the vocabulary just presented. Follow the suggestion in the anno in the IAE to write on the board the things mentioned and to write a general statement about what human beings cannot do without.
  4. Have students read the Contexto cultural.
  5. Present Análisis literario and Estrategia de lectura.
ASSIGNMENT
  1. Study the Vocabulario for La mejor tinta.
  2. Read La mejor tinta.
  3. List examples of repetition, alliteration, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, and imagery. Refer to Análisis literario and Estrategia de lectura.
  4. Prepare the Después de leer activities for La mejor tinta for the next class.
  5. Go to the VENTANAS web site and prepare the Literatura activity to be submitted electronically before class on Day 4.